Open Thread 5-13

The women on the Seattle City Council have written a nice opinion piece rebutting the garbage people have thrown at them over their stadium/land use vote. It’s sad that the article was necessary in 2016.

Will Paul Ryan emerge as a Republican hero for negotiating peace with the White Christian Identity Movement? Or will he be yet another roadkill carcass tossed aside by the Republican fear/hate juggernaut?

One things for sure: he’s covered himself in a stink that cannot be cleansed. Any pretense he may have had at being the intellectual conscience of the Republican Party will be forever soiled and diminished by his wallowing with the racist/nationalist wing of his party.

Now what is big time in those states? DUMMOCRETIN led cities with out-of-wedlock birth rates, high abortion rates, high crime rates, high drug use rates and low inner city graduation rates. The CDC abortion and FBI crime statistics are all there! Puddy has delivered this information many times. Just ask the crazed databaze deala for a replay.

Oh wait… No HA DUMMOCRETIN has the BALLS to ask it for a crazed databaze replay! All talk no action these morons are!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Prime DUMMOCRETIN territory where they control the mASSes of dumb ASSes with talk talk talk!

It is absolutely awful that a number of people threw misogynistic garbage at these women.

It is also (not equally but still) awful that these women get to entirely shift the focus away from their garbage arguments against the street vacation by pretending that opposition to their crass politicking and Port-influenced vote is entirely gender-focused.

Sally Bagshaw knows full-well that the Key Arena is a non-starter (and traffic would arguably be worse), but continues to push it. She was a given ‘No’ vote, anyway. Debra Juarez decided to come up with a fantasy about the arena being somewhere in North Seattle instead, something that’s never been discussed and no viable land option ever presented, and also had nothing to do with approving a street vacation. Nobody except Lorena Gonzalez, and possibly whomever twisted her arm/promised her things, knows why she changed her mind in the 20min before she voted, but she talked about it as if she decided based on “zoning” concerns… for an alley currently used for parking. I’ve given up trying to figure out whatever nonsense Kshama Sawant is spewing on a given issue. Lisa Herbold decided to cite a Port-sponsored push poll that should have had no bearing on her decision – even if the numbers were true, the public’s opinion as to whether or not an arena should be a priority is separate from the reality of a vote on a street vacation.

The only thing we know for sure is that the Port spent a huge amount of money on lobbying to make sure the Council ignored (some of them clearly didn’t even read) the transportation study that the Council had actually paid to have done. It worked. For as much as everyone says they hate the Port, they all accepted the nonsense given to them directly from the Port lobbyists.

They really should have done is not talked about it all if they knew that a) they didn’t support the MOU but couldn’t/shouldn’t say that, and b) any other excuse would make them look foolish. They were under no obligation to explain their vote. What more than a few of these Councilmembers showed is that they hadn’t studied the issue and then decided to focus on their own pet concerns in voting against it. It had nothing to do with gender, just general incompetence. The standard “Seattle Process” continues as ever.

Bellingham welcomes the opportunity to be the home for any NBA team coming to western Washington. Come on up. We got space and well empty areas. You could put the stadium across from the Lummi’s casino.

We wish to thank the ladies of the council for this opportunity. All those dreadful comments means Seattle just isn’t an NBA city, but Bellingham is so come on up here. We can draw folks in from Vancouver as well.

How ridiculous is it that the party that opposed equal time in the news media is outraged about lack of equal treatment in Facebook which by the way is not a news network. There is no end to Republican whining

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